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SUMMARY:NVIDIA GTC 2026
DESCRIPTION:GTC 2026 will take place from March 16–19\, 2026 in San Jose\, California and online. From physical AI and AI factories to agentic AI and inference\, GTC 2026 will showcase the breakthroughs shaping every industry. \nExplore the catalog of OpenUSD sessions and trainings featuring AOUSD members at this year’s show\, and register now with code AOUSD20 for 20% off.  \nWe are excited that so many AOUSD members are exhibiting and presenting this year\, including Cadence\, Foxconn\, Lightwheel\, Microsoft\, PTC\, Schneider Electric\, Siemens and NVIDIA.  \nFor a limited time at GTC\, attendees can complete the OpenUSD Development Certification for free. Join our onsite prep session and livestream community office hours to ensure you’re exam-ready. \nSunday\, March 15       \n8:30-4:30 p.m. | Workshop\nOpenUSD Crash Course: Build 3D Data Pipelines for Physical AI\nNVIDIA partnered with UME Studio \nMonday\, March 16      \n11:00-1:003:45 p.m.  |  Keynote\nNVIDIA GTC 2026 Keynote with Jensen Huang\nNVIDIA \n2:00-3:45 p.m.  |  Lab\nAssembling Industrial Digital Twins with OpenUSD and NVIDIA Omniverse Libraries\nNVIDIA \nTuesday\, March 17   \n8:00-9:45 a.m. | Lab\nBuild Robot-Ready Assets for Physically Accurate Simulations \nLightwheel \n9:00-9:40 a.m. | Talk\nBeyond the Basics: OpenUSD for Advanced Physical AI Simulation\nNVIDIA \n9:00-9:40 a.m. | Talk\nAutonomous AI Factories: A Technical Preview of Agent-Native Production\nMicrosoft \n10:00-10:40 a.m. | Talk\nA New Standard for Unified Power and Infrastructure Design With OpenUSD\nSchneider Electric \n10:00-11:30 a.m. | Tutorial\nDeep Dive: Streaming Immersive Robotics Teleoperations\nLightwheel \n1:00-2:45 p.m. | Lab\nAdvance World Simulation With 3D Gaussian Splatting for Large-Scale Environment Reconstruction \nNVIDIA \n3:00-3:40 p.m. | Talk\nHow Open World Models are Powering the Next Breakthroughs in Physical AI\nNVIDIA \n4:00- 4:40 p.m. | Panel\nHow to Build Planetary-Scale AI Infrastructure\nCadence\, PTC\, Schneider Electric\, NVIDIA \n4:00- 5:00 p.m. | Lightning Talk\nBuilding the Next Wave of AI-Enabled Robots\nLightwheel \nWednesday\, March 18  \n8:00–8:45 a.m. | Certification\nYour Path to Physical AI and OpenUSD Certification at GTC\nNVIDIA \n10:00-10:40 a.m. | Talk\nDevelop Physical AI Applications and Build Data Factories With the Robotics Ecosystem\nFoxconn \n11:00-11:40 a.m | Talk\nAI-Driven Digital Twins Optimize Facility Simulation and Autonomous Driving\nDelta Electronics \n4:00-4:40 p.m. | Panel\nAutonomous Networks: The New Brain of Telco Operations\nAccenture \n5:40- 5:55 a.m. | Talk\nMaximize Tokens-per-Watt With AI Factory Digital Twins\, From Chip to Grid\nSiemens \n7:30–9:30 p.m. | Meetup\nPhysical AI Developer Meetup\n*Must be registered with a conference pass for day of event \n 
URL:https://aousd.org/event/nvidia-gtc-2026/
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